Awake: 4:54am Temp 42 Cloudy Overnight @ Nicktown
We drive to the community center, exercise for 40 min & then attend 8:00am
communion service conducted by Sister Mary Lee. Next we join the
enlightening coffee club members for 45 min.
After breakfast, we visit Loretta @ the church rectory & sign up as
parishioners of the Saint Nicholas Catholic Church. She executed our
paperwork with ease.
Before noon, I call my cousin Sue in Ebensburg & ask if sometime today
would be ok for a visit with her & Caroline? She says: “after 3:00pm would
be great.” Next, I call cousins Florentz & Anna & invite them over to our
motorhome for a visit tomorrow afternoon.
Then, we drive to Mundys Corner (20) min. As we are driving through that
town, Zack calls from his work in Seattle. I pull off to the side of the
road: “someone who had bolt cutters, broke into the garage behind our
rental house & stole some stuff that I & my roomies had in storage” he
says. He continues: “Sarah, one of my roomies, has insurance….should I
claim my stereo that was boxed up & not used since high school on her
insurance?” The landlord has made a police report and cited the items that
were stolen. We advise him, as a suggestion, not to make a claim. It’s an
old unit that he hadn’t used in yrs & wouldn’t be worth the effort. As a
more comforting suggestion, I prescribe the idea of waiting a few weeks,
then visit a few of the local area garage sales & buy it back for $ 10.00!
5 min later we are @ our 1st destination for the afternoon: Al’s spec
house development. Al, his son Tim & his brother Kevin are building a
number of new houses on 20 acres of land. Al tours us through the main
floor, the full basement & the upstairs. I was impressed with their
workmanship: for example, thinly sprayed insulation between studs,
followed by batts of fiberglass insulation between those same studs &
stapled; after a hole is drilled for an electrical wire & run through it,
expanding insulation is sprayed into each one; they have cut & dried their
own timber & use 3 inch floor joists; they plumb for air conditioning
regardless if the buyer is interested or not; a supply & return duct in
every room…. & much more. We will be keeping these guys in mind for the
future.
From here, we visit Wal-Mart & the West End Market for light grocery
shopping; then a 20 min stop @ the local library en route to visit my
cousin Sue arriving @ our 2nd destination @ 3:25.
Sue has always made our visits very special: offering us a choice of
drinks, snacks & then bringing out her special home made pie for the
occasion. This time it was apple pie ala mode using Northern Spy apples.
We covered a lot of territory during our 1.6 hr visit. In October of last
yr, her sister Virginia, who had been living with her, passed away & that
was sad. But then, she obtained another roommate, Gay, who has been very
helpful caring for Caroline, Sue’s 40 yr old retarded daughter. Sue really
is an angel in disguise, with all the hardship moments she has had in her
life, she continues to deal with the happenings with humor & smiles even
though her e-mail address begins with “Sadsaksue.” It was another
informative & comfortable visit. Back to our coach @ 5:45pm.
7:30 dinner: Chicken with mustard sauce, broccoli, spinach salad & toast.
8:00pm: watch “Skating with the Celebrities” on TV.
High today: 47 Lights out: 10:38pm
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